Is there green lightning?

Green lightning is a rare phenomenon that can be seen during a thunderstorm. Someone who has seen green lightning is extremely lucky as green lightning strikes are rarely seen. It is so rare that the only photograph of a green lightning strike is one from when the Chaiten volcano in Chile erupted.
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What is green lightning?

Those are the types of storms that can produce hail and tornadoes. Green lightning does indicate that the cloud is extremely tall, and because thunderclouds are the tallest clouds, green is a warning sign that large hail or a tornado is on the way.
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Is it possible for lightning to be green?

Although green lightning seems unusual, Few now suspects it occurs during all thunderstorms but is concealed inside clouds. The concealment results from the structure of storm clouds. On the inside, the clouds contain ice crystals that are either positively or negatively charged.
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Can lightning have colors?

This oftentimes has to do with how far away or close you are to the lightning strike. When lightning strikes, different particles will scatter this light and cause the strike to appear as blue, pink, purple, white or even a brown-ish tint.
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How hot is green lightning?

How Hot Is Green Lightning? Green lightning is slightly cooler than purple lightning but that doesn't mean you'd want to get struck by it. It still manages to pack in an incredible 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit!
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What is the rarest color of lightning?

Green lightning is a rare phenomenon that can be seen during a thunderstorm. Someone who has seen green lightning is extremely lucky as green lightning strikes are rarely seen. It is so rare that the only photograph of a green lightning strike is one from when the Chaiten volcano in Chile erupted.
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Is rainbow lightning real?

Rainbow lightning is a rare as the chances of lightning striking near a rainbow are slim, explained Randall Cerveny, a professor of meteorology at Arizona State University in Tempe. 'Usually, you don't get those two things to line up at the same time,' he said in a 2015 Live Science piece.
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What color is savitar's lightning?

Also, the armor is capable of changing the color of a speedster's lightning as the armor changed Savitar's lightning from yellow to white.
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Is pink lightning real?

In snowstorms, where it is somewhat rare, pink and green are often described as colors of lightning. Haze, dust, moisture, raindrops and any other particles in the atmosphere will affect the color by absorbing or diffracting a portion of the white light of lightning.
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Is red lightning real?

Red lightning doesn't exist in the literal sense, according to the National Weather Service. The closest known phenomena is something called a red sprite, which occurs high in the atmosphere “directly above an active thunderstorm,” NOAA says.
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Is there Black lightning?

Scientists have just begun to understand a strange phenomenon known simply as "dark lightning". Different from regular lightning, dark lightning is a release of high-energy gamma radiation—sources include supernovae and supermassive black holes—that is completely invisible to the human eye.
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Is blue lightning rare?

These colorful flashes are called blue jets and they can stretch 30 miles into the stratosphere. Blue jets can only be seen from the ground under rare circumstances because they're brief and are typically obscured by clouds.
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Why did the sky flash green?

When the sun is rising and setting, longer wavelengths of light are scattered, making the sky appear red. As the sun makes its way overhead, shorter wavelengths are scattered and the sky will appear blue. The Green Flash is the result of this interaction between sunlight and the atmosphere.
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What is dark lightning?

Dark lightning is a burst of gamma rays produced during thunderstorms by extremely fast moving electrons colliding with air molecules. Researchers refer to such a burst as a terrestrial gamma ray flash.
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Who has green lighting in the Flash?

Green Lightning aka Ali Rayner-West is the descendant of both Kyle Rayner and Wally West and made her first appearance in the comics series Green Lantern: Circle of Fire by Brian K. Vaughan and Norm Breyfogle.
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What is orange lightning?

Red lightning within a cloud indicates the presence of rain. Yellow or orange lightning occurs when there is a large concentration of dust in the air. White lightning is a sign of low humidity or a little amount of moisture in the air.
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What color lightning is the hottest?

White lightning is the hottest, and literally, all bolts radiate white color. They're an indication of a low concentration of moisture and dust in the air.
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Is purple lightning rare?

The rare purple lightning strike occurs far higher in the atmosphere than normal lightning – and has only rarely been caught on film. The flash of 'ionospheric lightning' stands out against the deep blue of a night sky behind, while the raging storm lights up the clouds below.
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Who is the speedster with purple lightning?

The finale confirmed what fans had already guessed based on the clues: she was Barry and Iris's child from the future, Nora West-Allen. Iris's purple lightning in episode 16 was thus a way for the show's creative team to hint a connection between Iris and the mystery girl.
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Why is Nora's lightning purple?

While speedster physiology has been explained to a certain degree, there is still a lot they have not gone into during The Flash's run. The main reason why Nora only has purple lightning in this timeline is because of her brother Bart West-Allen, a.k.a. Impulse.
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Why did zooms lightning turn red?

Red: Red lightning is typically the result of a speedster having a connection to an Artificial Speed Force, such as the Negative Speed Force. Red lightning is seen from Eobard Thawne and Edward Clariss.
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Can there be a thunderstorm with snow?

Thundersnow – a thunderstorm that produces snow instead of rain – is sometimes reported during winter storms across the nation and in other countries.
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Can a lightning bolt hit a rainbow?

A 'one in a million' moment was caught on camera when a bolt of lightning struck the curve of a rainbow. Steven Miller had been teaching a personal training class in his garden in Wrexham, North Wales when the storm struck near his home.
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What does it mean if there's thunder but no rain?

Dry thunderstorm refers to thunder and lightning that occur without bringing rain to the ground. In fact, the thunder-bearing clouds do produce rain but the rain droplets have evaporated in the air before reaching the ground.
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